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made potsherds, intermingled with coal. Alongside of a dolmen lay 

 three silex axes and a crude figure of reddish sandstone. 



2. In Guyotville, near Algiers, only nine out of several hundred 

 dolmens, which in the middle of the last century were still standing 

 upright and since then carried off by inhabitants for house building, 

 are now preserved in perfect condition. These were saved through 

 the interest of the late German professor, Kuester, an instructor at 

 the Lyceum, in Algiers, who acquired these remnants, together with 

 a vineyard. One dolmen contained two crouching skeletons, the 

 bones of a child, a bronze bracelet, and potsherds. 



3. At Bou Nouara, near Constantine, on the road to Guelma, there 

 is a large number of dolmens, mostly surrounded by stone circles 

 (pi. 1) ; as also at Sigus (pi. 2 and pi. 3, fig. 1), Ksar Mahidjiba 

 (pi. 3, fig. 2), and El Kheneg, all in the neighborhood of Constan- 

 tine. 



4. At Bou Merzoug, near Oulad Eahmoun, there are about 1,000 

 dolmens, inclosed by one or more stone circles. Their contents con- 

 sisted of cowering skeletons, accompanied by copper rings, pots, 

 bowls, and horse bones. One tomb contained iron rings, copper rings, 

 and plates, fragments of worked flint, potsherds of very fine clay, 

 and a bronze medal of Faustina. 



5. At Roknia, on the road from Guelma to Hammon Meskoutine, 

 there are several thousand dolmens, with contents similar to the 

 preceding. 



6. At Henchir el Hadjar, in the territory of Enfida, in the regency 

 of Tunis, there were still preserved in 1904 about 400 dolmens, mostly 

 passage graves, often surrounded with cromlechs or stone circles. 

 The tombs are often built entirely in the ground, so that only the 

 flat stone cover on the surface indicates the tomb. They comprise 

 up to six stone chambers, each with a threshold stone, and contain 

 crouching skeletons of both sexes with platyknemic tibia and pot- 

 sherds. 



7. Still farther south the existence of megalithic monuments has 

 been discovered; as a cromlech of the expedition Choisy at Ain 

 Messine, between Laghouat and El Golea, and a dolmen of Johnston 

 in Uganda. 



II. MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS PECULIAR TO THE LAND OF THE KABYLES. 



Only the most important will be mentioned here. 



1. Quadrangular gigantic chambers at Ellez, in the neighborhood 

 of Le Kef in Tunis. They are chambers of four large stone plates, 

 with doors and small windows in the doorplates. Two rows of five 

 such chambers each are separated by a passage and covered with 

 stone plates in form of a gable roof. The general entrance to the 

 cemetery is closed with four large stone plates. 



